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President Obama’s plain-speaking Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, on Nov. 12 summed up the Administration’s Afghan dilemma in a single question: “How do we signal resolve and at the same time signal to the Afghans and the American people that this is...
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New disclosures about war crimes committed by British army in Iraq are out. A British soldier named Donald Payne revealed some of the crimes committed by the British...
made popular Nov 19 2009
One of Iraq’s two vice-presidents has vetoed part of the country’s new election law, putting the parliamentary polls scheduled for January in doubt.
Tariq...
made popular Nov 18 2009
New disclosures about war crimes committed by British army in Iraq are out. A British soldier named Donald Payne revealed some of the crimes committed by the British...
made popular Nov 18 2009
Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms abducted and killed at least 13 people in a village west of Baghdad, in what some described as revenge against Sunnis who helped...
made popular Nov 17 2009
Doctors in Iraq’s war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may...
made popular Nov 14 2009
That would be the country that spent a trillion dollars — on the invasion and occupation, but also on training and equipping Iraqi security forces, and on ambitious...
made popular Nov 13 2009
There seems, as with many problems in Iraq, no good answer for Camp Ashraf, as tensions here rise and American soldiers get closer to leaving: what to do with the few...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Behind-the-scenes U.S. pressure has finally forced Iraq’s leaders to accept a political compromise, with Sunday’s vote in the Iraqi parliament to adopt an...
made popular Nov 11 2009
Iraq’s parliament ended weeks of debate Sunday and passed a long-delayed law paving the way for the planned January election to go forward, sidestepping a crisis...
made popular Nov 9 2009
Iraq’s Green Zone has been an Oasis for Western officials in the city since the advent of the war. Secured behind myriad checkpoints and high concrete walls, the...
made popular Nov 6 2009
It is not known who is responsible for such attacks, as no one is claiming responsibility for them; which doesn’t really make sense as terrorist organizations...
made popular Nov 5 2009
A new wave of attacks has been wavering around Iraqi cities these days. Massive bombings were reported during the last couple of weeks causing deaths, casualties and...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Violence in Iraq has been reduced, as Western generals and politicians are keen to point out, but it has not gone away. If anything, it has become more deeply...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Nearly half of all Iraqis who died in October perished in a single coordinated attack against government offices in Baghdad, a tally by The Associated Press showed...
made popular Nov 3 2009
A new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center revels an alarming belligerency in the American public. Apparently, several years of agonizing war in Iraq (and...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control.
The dispute...
made popular Nov 2 2009
Iraq has called for more support from the international community to help it combat insurgent suicide bombings.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Sunday’s...
made popular Oct 31 2009
Many people around the world have been cursed with cringe-inducing names (as this BBC story proves). Some, however, are more unfortunate than others.
On last...
made popular Oct 28 2009
132 Iraqis are dead, more than 500 are injured… Suicide bombers on Sunday caused this huge number of deaths and casualties.
Why and who would do something like this?...
made popular Oct 27 2009
Suicide bombers driving two large vehicle bombs again penetrated the heart of Baghdad today, killing 147 people and wounding more than 700, less than three months...
made popular Oct 26 2009
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In a SPIEGEL interview, the national security adviser to the White House, General James Jones, has expressed strong skepticism regarding the request of General Stanley...
made popular Nov 10 2009
Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN’s John King Sunday on State Of The Union...
made popular Nov 9 2009
President Obama’s pledge to withdraw US troops from Iraq and end combat operations there by September 2010 is under threat because of increased levels of violence and...
made popular Oct 20 2009
Afghanistan’s Taliban mocked the award of a Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday, saying he should get a Nobel Prize for violence...
made popular Oct 10 2009
U.S. Gen. Ray Odierno is expected to tell the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee that there has been a significant drop in violence in Iraq recently,...
made popular Sep 30 2009
U.S. troops burst into a Swedish charity-run hospital in Afghanistan and tied up patients’ relatives and staff, the charity said on Sunday, in what it called a...
made popular Sep 7 2009
German federal prosecutors said Friday they have arrested a man suspected of helping a terrorist cell that allegedly plotted attacks against U.S. troops in Germany.
made popular Aug 29 2009
Commanders of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, as the American-led coalition is formally called, have a looming nomenclature problem.
Two days from now, there will no...
made popular Jul 29 2009
A security agreement that went into effect at the start of the year mandated the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraqi cities and towns by June 30. Almost a month...
made popular Jul 28 2009
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. The Pentagon reassured troops Wednesday that it won’t ban tobacco products in war zones. Defense officials hadn’t...
made popular Jul 17 2009
The aunt of a soldier killed in Afghanistan has joined Charles Krauthammer and Bill O’Reilly in decrying the media coverage surrounding Michael Jackson’s death. Her...
made popular Jul 11 2009
United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
made popular Jul 4 2009
The United States army says it has launched a major offensive against the Taliban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
The US military says about 4,000 marines...
made popular Jul 2 2009
On 30 June the last US troops will pull out of the Iraqi cities. America’s great adventure in Iraq is ending. Already there are few US military patrols in...
made popular Jun 23 2009
The Iraqi government expects al-Qa’ida and Baathist insurgent groups to launch a wave of attacks so they can take credit for compelling the US military to leave...
made popular Jun 17 2009
Yesterday’s attack on Peshawar’s Pearl Continental Hotel was the latest signal of Pakistan’s growing Islamist insurgency.
Since the raid by the Pakistani...
made popular Jun 12 2009
“What are you doing?” For the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the answer to the latest social networking craze seems to be: “Killing...
made popular Jun 2 2009
US Admits Troops Killed Afghanistan Mother, Children
Jason Ditz, April 09, 2009
“Early this morning, the United States reported that its forces in the Khost...
made popular Apr 13 2009
It is nice for the White House to clear up that the preemptive invasion of a nation without U.N. sanction makes America’s 150,000 troops in Iraq...
made popular Dec 17 2008
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